AGILENT Technologies has released SystemVue, a communications design environment for wireless system architects and system-on-chip designers.
Users can now use the software to validate multiband, high-transistor-count wireless IC designs accurately against the latest communications standards.
According to Agilent Technologies, the solution addresses the lack of accurate commercial modelling formats needed to qualify the system-level performance of RF/analogue and mixed-signal CMOS transceiver designs.
Agilent’s GoldenGate and SystemVue environments now connect in two ways to help system-on-chip designers meet the challenging requirement of ETSI LTE/LTE-A and other emerging wireless standards, via a fast circuit envelope (FCE) model or direct envelope-level cosimulation.
The new FCE models execute 1,000 to 100,000 times faster than the original RFIC physical designs, with virtually no loss in accuracy at the system level.
They can account for nonlinear memory effects and are generated from the RFIC design itself, with little human intervention or coding.
They can also account for frequency- and power-dependence, frequency translation, multiple ports and internal nodes, and can be exported at various settings of control states, bias voltages, process corners, temperatures and impedance loading.
The new FCE models run natively in SystemVue, as part of the W1719 RF System Design Kit.
The latest version of SystemVue also includes new wireless capabilities for Spectrasys, the spectral domain simulator at the heart of SystemVue’s RF System Architect personality.
Enterprise customers can now achieve superior partitioning and verification by applying Spectrasys to multiband architectures, zero IF, MIMO, phase noise, and X-parameters from other tools, and bringing those RF effects up to the system level.
Also included in the latest release are several baseband verification libraries for algorithm developers, which integrate naturally into the wireless IC verification flow enabled by Agilent GoldenGate. They include:
- W1918 LTE-Advanced baseband verification library, the EDA industry’s first shipping support for the 3GPP Release 10 physical layer.
- W1917 WLAN baseband verification library, which supports 802.11ac modulated sources, as well more mature support for 802.11a.
- W1916 3G baseband verification library, for legacy support of CDMA, CDMA2000, WCDMA, and HSUPA for multi-format radios.
- ISDB-T, which is included in the W1914 DVB-x2 library as an upgrade.
- Custom OFDM, a general-purpose OFDM block set included with the SystemVue platform for prototyping new communications formats.